Someone stated that the file in question is only 25KB .
Let's do some calculations.
If the file was only 1 byte how many possibilities were there for MD5 checksums ?
Well, 1 actually
If the file was 2 bytes, we have 3 possibile sums.
If the file was 3 bytes, we have 6 possibile sums.
If the file was 4 bytes, we have 10 possibile sums.
Extrapolating this to 25000 we get 312512500 possible MD5 sums for 25KB file, but wait, in theory you can ask for sums to be calculated "cackwards" for any length of buffer except 1 byte. (Just specify buffer A-B where A>B)
So we have 312512500+312512500-25000=625000000 possible 16 byte md5 checksums.
That makes for 10,000,000,000 bytes
Quite possible to put all that in a database.
But of course AOL will make sure the next version will be hundreds of K's, blocking this approach in the future.
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Until today I had never heard of this "libranet" distribution and yet we have people crawling all over slashdot claiming this is the best linux distribution.
They are not addressing *you* as an individual. But rather as a part of a group of dumb consumers.
Realy, they couldn't care less if you were hit by a truch at this instance or blown to bits by a carbomb. If it doesn't show on their statistics it doesn't matter.
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You hit the nail right on it's head. Everything is going to be about the market. The market and commerce are likely to be officially above everything in a few years.
Ant it's all going to change this summer when WTO will rule on Brazil's ability to manufacture cheap AIDS drugs for it's patients.
That will realy be the turning point, if WTO will rule in favour of the drug companies, then we will have it "officially" that the companies ability to make profit comes first, absolutely first. Even before human lives.
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It wasn't "Captain Crunch" who figured out that you could make free calls with the whistle that came with the 'Captain Crunch' cereal.
Although he did claim it in the beginning, he admitted the truth after beeing called a lot of bad names for taking the credit from a group of blind kids that discovered this.
Today, he openly admitts, it were the blind kids, who figured it out, but has completely forgotten about that he tryed to credit himself with the discovery.
In Europe or at least here in France, contracts like that , are a sword that cuts bot ways.
Since we have a document here calle the bill of human rights, anybody has the freedom to work. And that right is god damn above just any law there is.
However, If Microsoft would deside to hold me to the contract I signed, the standard procedure is to get a lawyer, take them to the courts and hold them responsible for taking away my right to work.
They would then have to pay me for 5 years (or whatever time period the contract stated) for not being able to work for the competition.
However, I would be perfectly free to work for whomever else I would choose, 100% job, all perfectly legal, and there isn't squat MS could do about it.
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Holy Cow,
this is almost plaintext in the Furth language, just shifted 13 places in the alphabet.
The message reads:
Greetings Furths,
The race of humans has just learnt of your existance, after polluting our own planet, strip-mined it and centuries of brutal war with machines of devastating descruction, we finally found your planet.
Please prepare for our resource probe fleet, due to land in 378 years (203 Furth years).
Looking forward to meeting you.
- The Eartlings
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Paying one guy for three months to
do shit work in a tiny office is a tiny price to pay if that means the others keep working.
Mabe you didn't read with your full attention, but you don't actually have to do any work at all. You don't even have to show up at work. And if they don't want to terminate your contract, then they will have to pay you as well.
Also, the not-working-for-the-competition 12 months after you quit is also a joke, yes, they *can* block you from doing it, but then they have to pay you 100% for those 12 months. *And* you can have a full time work at the third company, all 100% according to the law.
Please understand that the position of the company against the employee is extremely weak in France, you might need to hire a lawyer, but the law is on your site. --
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If I haven't done anything illegal, I have nothing to hide.
Pardon me, but please let *me* decide if I want to hide my personal life from the state or not. Or better yet, please respect others right to keep their personal life to themselves.
There is no law that protects my right to a private conversation to my brother, but it is a right I'm not ready to give up. I'd rather see 100 criminals walking free than my rights to private life taken away.
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you'll have to tell them you're moving on months in advance instead of not returning from lunch
Bwahahaha, that's just the law that protects the individual from the company, (They have to pay you 100% for 3 months if they sac you (and even that is extremely difficult for any company))
In reality you hand them you letter of resignation and tell them when you are leaving. And, yes, it can be "tomorrow". We have this thing here in europe called the "human rights", ands it states that you can't force anybody to work. Everybody knows this so they let you go when you want instead of having to pay you 3 months for doing absolutely nothing..
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In september 1997 I landed in Paris, without a job, with no knowledge of the French language, and with a promise for an "appartment" for just 3 months.
The French were just beginning to grasp this Internet thing by then. This "Overgrown American version of 'Minitel'". Oh, my gosh, many things have changed since then. Generally I find this country much nicer and more andvanced (more "serious") than my own, the healtservice is better (*and* cheaper), the food and wine is.. ahh, well you all know..;-)
You get 5 weeks in wacation each year. And they have those weird 35 hour work-weeks in *law*, that can mean extra 4 weeks of wacation a year (it does for me;-)
The only downside is the people is Paris, known in all of France at "Les Parisiens", but that is just 99.99% if them, the 0.01% you will know personally are just fine and a lot of fun to know;)
My advice is: Just do it !!!
Remember: the worst things to regret are those that you didn's do.
Mail me, and I will find you a job in a week.
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It has the usual DVD/MP3/ZoneFree/ToggleMacrovision capabilities plus a few others, and is the only one on the market with a upgratable ROM (you download the rom from the Net, burn it on a CD, start your Tokai with the CD in the drive, and BOOM, you have the latest manufacturer ROM)
If you go for the Tokai, try to find the 715S model.
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The norwegians are developing a "better" salmon. It grows faster, and has more muscle mass compared to the "wimpy" natural salmon.
The salmon will be infertile, or at least 99.8% of it.
Now, what will happend when a fertile salmon escapes into the nature ? (I have worked on a salmon farm so I can tell you that those things are not uncommon)
The natural salmon will have less change in the fight over who gets to seed the eggs from the female salmon.
Will it be "safe" to replace the natural salmon with the geneticaly modified one ??
Nobody knows for sure, but it's a thing very few are willing to do anyway.
And absolutely nobody is claiming it to be safe!. --
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They can file suits all they want, but Judge Harris would like the "judge-shopping" factor out of it, and just let things have it's way. --
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Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, but the world simply doesn't work like that ..
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Someone stated that the file in question is only 25KB
. Let's do some calculations.
If the file was only 1 byte how many possibilities were there for MD5 checksums ?
Well, 1 actually
If the file was 2 bytes, we have 3 possibile sums.
If the file was 3 bytes, we have 6 possibile sums.
If the file was 4 bytes, we have 10 possibile sums.
Extrapolating this to 25000 we get 312512500 possible MD5 sums for 25KB file, but wait, in theory you can ask for sums to be calculated "cackwards" for any length of buffer except 1 byte. (Just specify buffer A-B where A>B)
So we have 312512500+312512500-25000=625000000 possible 16 byte md5 checksums.
That makes for 10,000,000,000 bytes
Quite possible to put all that in a database.
But of course AOL will make sure the next version will be hundreds of K's, blocking this approach in the future.
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Here are some screenshots of one of the 'spy' progams.
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I realy, realy don't understand all this fuss.
Until today I had never heard of this "libranet" distribution and yet we have people crawling all over slashdot claiming this is the best linux distribution.
Come on guys, the company doesn't even support it's own distribution: ftp://ftp.libranet.com/pub/updates
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They are not addressing *you* as an individual. But rather as a part of a group of dumb consumers.
Realy, they couldn't care less if you were hit by a truch at this instance or blown to bits by a carbomb. If it doesn't show on their statistics it doesn't matter.
Getting a *empowering* feeling from this, can not be called anything else than naive.
--
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You hit the nail right on it's head. Everything is going to be about the market. The market and commerce are likely to be officially above everything in a few years.
Ant it's all going to change this summer when WTO will rule on Brazil's ability to manufacture cheap AIDS drugs for it's patients.
That will realy be the turning point, if WTO will rule in favour of the drug companies, then we will have it "officially" that the companies ability to make profit comes first, absolutely first. Even before human lives.
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Why do "certain people" always talk/think as their laws/standards apply everywhere ?
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To: Osama Bin Laden:
The passphrase is "/."
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
jA0EAwMCZQtz4SsogXBgyUoINMfK7BSgYzT4L4ZxxLdfrGD
DlvBNKk1r5Y72jTzE0Hbw1cUBZ8spJhyoqG6mRWAKpKkFnB
=++Ya
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
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This would actually be quite funny if it weren't for the fact that the Linux crowd doesn't use FUD to the point that high level MS people do.
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You can grab the 2 ISOs from here:
(you might want to hold down shift while you clock)
fisher-i386-disc1.iso
and
fisher-i386-disc2.iso
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It wasn't "Captain Crunch" who figured out that you could make free calls with the whistle that came with the 'Captain Crunch' cereal.
Although he did claim it in the beginning, he admitted the truth after beeing called a lot of bad names for taking the credit from a group of blind kids that discovered this.
Today, he openly admitts, it were the blind kids, who figured it out, but has completely forgotten about that he tryed to credit himself with the discovery.
You can read about it here
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Why pay for drugs when you can get Linux for free ?
In Europe or at least here in France, contracts like that , are a sword that cuts bot ways.
Since we have a document here calle the bill of human rights, anybody has the freedom to work. And that right is god damn above just any law there is.
However, If Microsoft would deside to hold me to the contract I signed, the standard procedure is to get a lawyer, take them to the courts and hold them responsible for taking away my right to work.
They would then have to pay me for 5 years (or whatever time period the contract stated) for not being able to work for the competition.
However, I would be perfectly free to work for whomever else I would choose, 100% job, all perfectly legal, and there isn't squat MS could do about it.
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http://www.aspalliance.com/dagon/ reads (in part):
<Script
Src='rejectNS.js' Language='JavaScript'>
</Script>
and
http://www.aspalliance.com/dagon/rejectNS.js reads:
if (!document.all)
location.href="/dagon/rejectNS/rejectNS.html";
Anybody want to comment on how it works ?
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You can download the surce Here
According to the page it was registered at Source Forge on 2000-Jan-28 15:37
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Holy Cow,
this is almost plaintext in the Furth language, just shifted 13 places in the alphabet.
The message reads:
Greetings Furths,
The race of humans has just learnt of your existance, after polluting our own planet, strip-mined it and centuries of brutal war with machines of devastating descruction, we finally found your planet.
Please prepare for our resource probe fleet, due to land in 378 years (203 Furth years).
Looking forward to meeting you.
- The Eartlings
--
Why pay for drugs when you can get Linux for free ?
Mabe you didn't read with your full attention, but you don't actually have to do any work at all.
You don't even have to show up at work. And if they don't want to terminate your contract, then they will have to pay you as well.
Also, the not-working-for-the-competition 12 months after you quit is also a joke, yes, they *can* block you from doing it, but then they have to pay you 100% for those 12 months. *And* you can have a full time work at the third company, all 100% according to the law.
Please understand that the position of the company against the employee is extremely weak in France, you might need to hire a lawyer, but the law is on your site.
--
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Everybody is innocent until proved guilty.
But apparently the Bureau can legally trick you into comitting crimes.
FISA, the secret court.
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Pardon me, but please let *me* decide if I want to hide my personal life from the state or not. Or better yet, please respect others right to keep their personal life to themselves.
There is no law that protects my right to a private conversation to my brother, but it is a right I'm not ready to give up. I'd rather see 100 criminals walking free than my rights to private life taken away.
--
Why pay for drugs when you can get Linux for free ?
you'll have to tell them you're moving on months in advance instead of not returning from lunch
Bwahahaha, that's just the law that protects the individual from the company, (They have to pay you 100% for 3 months if they sac you (and even that is extremely difficult for any company))
In reality you hand them you letter of resignation and tell them when you are leaving. And, yes, it can be "tomorrow". We have this thing here in europe called the "human rights", ands it states that you can't force anybody to work. Everybody knows this so they let you go when you want instead of having to pay you 3 months for doing absolutely nothing..
--
Why pay for drugs when you can get Linux for free ?
In september 1997 I landed in Paris, without a job, with no knowledge of the French language, and with a promise for an "appartment" for just 3 months.
The French were just beginning to grasp this Internet thing by then. This "Overgrown American version of 'Minitel'". Oh, my gosh, many things have changed since then. Generally I find this country much nicer and more andvanced (more "serious") than my own, the healtservice is better (*and* cheaper), the food and wine is .. ahh, well you all know .. ;-)
You get 5 weeks in wacation each year. And they have those weird 35 hour work-weeks in *law*, that can mean extra 4 weeks of wacation a year (it does for me ;-)
The only downside is the people is Paris, known in all of France at "Les Parisiens", but that is just 99.99% if them, the 0.01% you will know personally are just fine and a lot of fun to know ;)
My advice is: Just do it !!!
Remember: the worst things to regret are those that you didn's do.
Mail me, and I will find you a job in a week.
--
Why pay for drugs when you can get Linux for free ?
Check out Tokai/Raite
It has the usual DVD/MP3/ZoneFree/ToggleMacrovision capabilities plus a few others, and is the only one on the market with a upgratable ROM (you download the rom from the Net, burn it on a CD, start your Tokai with the CD in the drive, and BOOM, you have the latest manufacturer ROM)
If you go for the Tokai, try to find the 715S model.
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Intel recalled the Pentium IV on November 21 2000.
You can read about it Here
Other major Intel blunders can be found Here
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The norwegians are developing a "better" salmon. It grows faster, and has more muscle mass compared to the "wimpy" natural salmon.
The salmon will be infertile, or at least 99.8% of it.
Now, what will happend when a fertile salmon escapes into the nature ? (I have worked on a salmon farm so I can tell you that those things are not uncommon)
The natural salmon will have less change in the fight over who gets to seed the eggs from the female salmon.
Will it be "safe" to replace the natural salmon with the geneticaly modified one ??
Nobody knows for sure, but it's a thing very few are willing to do anyway.
And absolutely nobody is claiming it to be safe!.
--
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They can file suits all they want, but Judge Harris would like the "judge-shopping" factor out of it, and just let things have it's way.
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Those "artificial" molecules, exist nowhere except in human DNA.
You just can't patent "e90a0f0e1f......" up until you have all of Microsofts win.com file.
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